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Dinuba, Sanger, Orange Cove advance wrestlers to state meet
MVT Staff Report
Four wrestlers from Mid Valley Times cover- age high schools will be competing this week at the CIF State Wrestling Championships in Ba- kersfield.
Dinuba High’s Noah Cortez (154 pounds) and Javier Martinez (287) and Sanger High’s Vin- cent Stafford (154) have qualified for the boys meet while Orange Cove High’s Clarissa Alvarez (Grand Masters cham- pion at 160 pounds) is the lone girls meet quali- fier. Competition begins Thursday, Feb. 27, at Mechanics Bank Arena (formerly Rabobank Arena) at 9 a.m. for the girls and 1 p.m. for boys.
The Friday, Feb. 28, schedule has consola- tion rounds and quar- terfinals, and semifinal matches begin at 11 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 29. The championship finals start at 6 p.m.
Led by second place showings from Cortez and Martinez, Dinuba High’s boy finished 11th in the team stand- ings at the Central Sec- tion Grand Masters Championships on Feb. 22 at Fresno’s Hoover High School. Cortez — who captured the Divi- sion 1 section title at 154 pounds on Feb. 15, placed second in the overall Masters after dropping a 4-0 decision to Buchanan’s Reymun- do Raiz. Heavyweight Martinez reached the finals with four wins in- cluding two pins before losing 5-1 to top-seeded in state Josiah Hill from Bakersfield High.
Cortez is seeded sixth in state for the 152 class and will open against An- drew Forman of Arch- bishop Mitty. Sanger’s Stafford, who placed seventh at the Masters meet, is unseeded and opens against the win- ner of a match between a Omar Rosas (Central, San Diego) and Jed Campos (Del Oro, Sac Joaquin).
Sophomore Martinez is seeded seventh in the heavyweight class and takes on Eduardo Fuen- tes of Alemany High from the Southern Sec-
tion. Masters champion Hill opens against a San Diego opponent.
On the girls side, Or- ange Cove’s Alvarez ran her season record to 36- 3 by edging Stockdale High’s Ehireme Ohens, 2-0. The senior, seeded seventh in state, scored a second period escape for the only points of the match top sixth-seeded Ohens. Alvarez also re- corded three pins on the day.
Alvarez’s opening match at state in the 160 class is against sopho- more Brooke Logan from Live Oak High.
Among other re- gional wrestlers, Reed- ley High sophomore 134-pounder Phillip Ar- royo (4-2) came within onewinofatop10 Grand Masters finish that would have quali- fied him for state. Team- mates Efrain Ortiz (140) and Ethan Anderson (128) made early exits as the Pirates finished 63rd in team standings. Parli- er finished 52nd with 12 points led by Gabriel Al- varado who went 4-2 at 172 pounds.
Orange Cove’s Andy Tristen went 2-2 at 128 pounds.
For the girls, senior Esther Villa placed fifth in the 160 pound weight class in Grand Masters while Orange Cove’s Cynthia Ruiz finished 2-2 at 145 pounds.
Rick Curiel / Mid Valley Times
Dinuba High's Jesse Ortega slides home for the winning run after the Emperors rallied from 1-0 deficit, pushed extra innings and beat Sanger 2-1 at home in the bottom of the ninth inning.
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Dinuba beats Sanger in extra innings
Lady Emps
off to hot
start, 5-0
MVT Staff Report
The Dinuba High girls softball team continued to roll as the Lady Emperors pounded out 12 hits in a 13- 1 win over visiting Edison on Friday in Dinuba.
Dinuba has opened the season with five straight wins as they erupted for five runs in the second in- ning. The Lady Emperors continued to pour it on scoring four runs in the third and fourth innings in a game called after the fifth.
Sophomore Hailee Za- pien led the way driving in four runs on two hits while junior Erica Flores and se- nior Jordynn Acevedo each drove in a pair of runs.
In a 6-0 win over Coal- inga on Feb. 18, Flores pitched a complete game three-hitter with seven strikeouts and had two hits with 2 RBI’s.
Dinuba scored all of its runs in the top of the fifth inning.
Senior Haley Amador had two hits and drove in a run while sophomore Mad- ison Bautista had a hit with 2 RBI’s.
Dinuba wrapped up a three-game home stand with a 7-4 win over Fowler on Feb. 13. The Lady Em- perors had rolled to a pair of victories over Mission Oak (20-0) and Reedley (18-2).
The Lady Emperors will be back in action this weekend at the Redwood Invitational.
By Rick Curiel
Mid Valley Times
The Dinuba High varsity baseball team improved to 3-1 on the season after rallying to beat visiting Sanger, 2-1, on Saturday, Feb. 22.
The Apaches jumped out to a 1-0 lead after Sanger High’s Andrew Herrera drove one into shallow left field for a double, scoring a runner from second base to take the early lead in the first inning.
Defense controlled the majority of the game as the score remained 1-0 until the bottom of the sixth inning when Di- nuba’s Jesse Ortega rock- eted a ball over the head of the Apache left fielder to drive in the tying run.
Ortega would then
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come up big again in ex- tra innings, reaching base on a double in the ninth inning. While attempting to steal third, the ball got past Sanger’s third base- man allowing Ortega to slide home for the walk- off victory. The junior infielder went 2 for 3 at the plate, accounting for all but one of the Emper- ors’ hits.
Dinuba senior Mi- chael Gomez pitched seven innings in the Em- perors’ victory. Getting the win for Dinuba was senior Josh Escobedo, who came in to relieve Gomez in the eighth in- ning.
For Sanger, pitcher Joey Rodriguez threw seven innings, allowing one run, two hits while striking out eight batters. The loss against Dinuba
was the Apaches’ first loss of the season.
In a Feb. 19 contest at Lemoore, Gomez had two hits, including a home- run, while driving in two runs in a 4-3 victory over the Tigers. Dinuba was tied with Lemoore, 2-2, in the fifth inning when senior Josh Meave drove in two runs on a base hit single.
Earning the win against Lemoore was Di- nuba senior Justin Gon- zalez, who pitched the fi- nal five innings in relief of Escobedo.
The Emperors will be home again this Satur- day for a 6 p.m. matchup against Sierra Pacific.
The Apaches will be taking on Selma on Saturday at the Fowler Tournament. Game time is scheduled for noon.
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